My son needs to lose weight?

Well you did say he enjoyed baseball so that would be excellent! Baseball is an amazing work out, and you can encourage any similar sport. Do not beat yourself up too much over this, I personally have no kids but see how many family and friends always want to hang on to their baby... lol I am 26 and will always be my daddy's little baby girl. The best thing I can think of with the sweets thing is like my brother did with his daughter, take them out of the house and start using other sweets... keep fruits around more as the sweet snacks, these are great for calorie watching and taste good too, even if you use very small amounts of fruit dip, as well as vegetables again with SMALL amounts of dip. I would not recommend "adult diets" South Beach Diet, diet pills or anything like that... they are not meant for children that young. Drink more 100% juices grape, grapefruit(not so tasty but it eats fat...), and apple, the sweeter they taste he may like them and not realize how great it is for him, and water is always great. Not that I would encourage you to discourage your child, but maybe sit with him and talk to him about it, and not letting him poke the fun at himself about it. Make the activities fun and exciting too. If he really likes video games, try the dance games for WII and X-Box, they are very active, fun and hey he may not even realize the great work out he is doing because he thinks its just a video game. I hope you found this helpful and hope that everything works out ok and the he is in good health, and you find some ease to your stress. I hope that you update I am curious how things work out...